Dear visitor,

Good morning.

November already! Doom and gloom all around? Not here!

Take look at the videos on the right, try the exercises. Have some fun!

Can you recognise an optimist? How about an investment banker ironing 5 shirts on a Sunday afternoon?

Business Conference - January 15 and 16

Barcelona: Visit to CaixaForum January 2009 : Uffizi Gallery

NetPill for young people - 14 to 18 year olds and 18 to 25 year olds

Gospel Viu is a Catalan Gospel Choir of over 50 people who sing to professional standards. They have a concert on December 19 at 22.00 in aid of the Catalunya Rett Syndrome charity. It will be in the Auditori. Tickets are around 15 euros and go on sale in early December via Caixa Catalunya's Telentrada service. You can do the whole operation in English! One of the singers, Tomas Casanovas, let us all know about it on a recent Dynamic Presentations workshop that I did at the Col·legi d'Economistes. I've had 3 or 4 confirmations from other attendees to the workshop, saying that they will go. My family and I will be going, so let's see how many Advance Communication Newsletter readers can be there!

Tips

Sales:

Premature proposals and 8 things you need to know before you submit a proposal that stands a chance

I found the following article while browsing on the internet. The article concerns the difficult area of making commercial proposals. It is aimed mainly at professional service firms; law, audit, consultancies of various types, but maybe there also learnings that apply to the relations that some of our own clients have with major retail distributors, and other actors in the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) marketplace.
click here to read more »

Humour

Adjusting to changed circumstances

A friend of mine has decided to adjust his business to the current economic climate and he sent me the projected communiqué he intends to send to his staff, in order to have my feedback. Here it is: click here to read more »

Any comments? You can email them to me at the bottom of the page.

I would very much appreciate your feedback about this Newsletter and any questions or suggestions that you have. Also, please let me know if you like the exercises that I started to include in the last two or three Newsletters. Do feel free to write in your own language, or in English if you prefer.

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Kind regards,
Albert